This IDC study provides a size and forecast for the worldwide composite workloads infrastructure market from 2018 to 2022, specifically for compute and storage platforms. IDC estimates this market — which consists of compute and storage infrastructure (hardware and software) — to be $14.42 billion in 2018. Further, IDC estimates that this market will grow at a CAGR of 14.6% and reach $24.33 billion in 2022. "The explosion of content, coupled with newer mechanisms to stream media, makes the composite media workload one of the fastest-growing workloads from a compute and storage infrastructure point of view," said Ashish Nadkarni, group VP for IDC's Worldwide Infrastructure practice.